Now it's not only onscreen that the Terminator has two different futures; IDW's announcement yesterday of a Terminator: Salvation prequel comic book (along with an adaptation of the movie itself) means that Dynamite Entertainment's ongoing line of Terminator comics (Itself separate from Dark Horse's Terminator: Omnibus collections) will no longer have the sole four-color future for John Conner and post-Skynet humanity.

IDW's Saturday panel at Comic-Con also included Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall mentioning that the company was talking to various "big name" authors about a line of upcoming adaptations of classic science fiction novels. IDW's Ideas And Dreams [Comic Book Resources]